May I summary and translate this thread to japanese and send it to ruby-dev? I am still not sure about the relationship between ruby-core and ruby-dev On Nov 14, 2007 9:16 PM, Jordi <mumismo / gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2007 7:38 AM, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel / path.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > Jonas Pfenniger wrote: > > > Another "invoke_method" idea is "dispatch", which respects the idea of > > > message passing. > > > > I like that. > > > > It avoids the grammatical quirk that has been pointed out in the > > following case: > > > > receiver.send :message > > > > The receiver is grammatically the subject of this sentence, but, > > semantically, the receiver is not sending the message. > > > > The following makes it clear that receiver is dispatching the message > > and not sending the message: > > > > receiver.dispatch :message > > > I like it also. I guess dispatch! would be better if it is supposed > to access to private methods. > > I would like to see Matz commenting in this 60+ emails thread. > >